How to avoid database bloat - Mailing list pgsql-performance

  Hello,

  Our database increases in size 2.5 times during the day.
What to do to avoid this? Autovacuum running with quite
aggressive settings, FSM settings are high enough.

  Database size should be more or less constant but it
has high turnover rate (100+ insert/update/delete per second).

  Below is "du -sk" of database dir during the day. On 4:05
full vacuum+reindex runs and database size is once again
reduced.

  Thanks,

  Mindaugas

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